Liocarcinus vernalis

Tags: Crustacean.

Liocarcinus vernalis the grey ᾷ crab is a small shallow-water crab in the family Portunidae. L. vernalis was thought for a long time to be a predominantly Mediterranean species but its known range was extended by a series of observations in the 1980s and 1990s. It ranges from West Africa to the southern North Sea.

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binomial authority

Antoine Risso

class

Malacostraca

family

Portunidae

genus

Liocarcinus

kingdom

Animal

order

Decapoda, Crab

phylum

Arthropod, Crustacean

synonym

*Macropipus vernalis (Risso 1827), *Polybius vernalis (Risso 1827), *Portunus barbarus (Lucas 1846), *Portunus dubius (Rathke 1837), *Portunus valentieni (Cocco 1833), *Portunus vernalis (Risso 1816)